Re: Forum Upgrades

Re: Forum Upgrades

OK One big issue for me that is missing now is with large quotes and code blocks.These used to cut off after a number of lines and we used to be able to expand these but now the whole quote or block shows.This is quite a nuisance but I don't know if anything can be done?Example herehttp://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=107083#p107083There is a particularly large block in one of my posts quoting an error page. It doesn;'t need to be shown in full and indeed it makes the thread difficult to read.

But I have to say that now this update is over a week old I'm loving it. Massive performance improvement. Thanks

James

What you want and what you need are too often not the same thing!When your head is hurting from trying to solve a problem, stop standing on it. When you are the right way up you will see the problem differently and you just might find the solution.(Quote by me 15th July 2009)

Re: Forum Upgrades

engineerDave wrote:

Honestly I thought I was in the wrong place. Also not to be trollish but does anyone else find it strange that this site is a php site?

Not at all :-)

It's free and AFAIK not run as a business so why waste time and effort reinventing the wheel?I'm sure the mods have more than enough on their hands without having to maintain an application they have written as well.

What you want and what you need are too often not the same thing!When your head is hurting from trying to solve a problem, stop standing on it. When you are the right way up you will see the problem differently and you just might find the solution.(Quote by me 15th July 2009)

Re: Forum Upgrades

Re: Forum Upgrades

jamesw wrote:

OK One big issue for me that is missing now is with large quotes and code blocks.These used to cut off after a number of lines and we used to be able to expand these but now the whole quote or block shows.

Oh, that's a very good point. Once I've recovered from the rumble a bit, I'll fix that.

engineerDave wrote:

Honestly I thought I was in the wrong place. Also not to be trollish but does anyone else find it strange that this site is a php site?

Re: Forum Upgrades

Kelli wrote:

jamesw wrote:

OK One big issue for me that is missing now is with large quotes and code blocks.These used to cut off after a number of lines and we used to be able to expand these but now the whole quote or block shows.

Oh, that's a very good point. Once I've recovered from the rumble a bit, I'll fix that.

What you want and what you need are too often not the same thing!When your head is hurting from trying to solve a problem, stop standing on it. When you are the right way up you will see the problem differently and you just might find the solution.(Quote by me 15th July 2009)

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Are you guys working on a Rails forum application? Is anybody? I'm getting ashamed of constantly having to recommend my clients to use phpBB...

I am! But there are a few rails forum plugins and examples available.PM me if you are interested.

What you want and what you need are too often not the same thing!When your head is hurting from trying to solve a problem, stop standing on it. When you are the right way up you will see the problem differently and you just might find the solution.(Quote by me 15th July 2009)

Re: Forum Upgrades

Re: Forum Upgrades

I see some time back that an attempt was made to support syntax highlighting on the code tag. Does it just not work properly, or is it a back-burner task that nobody's got around to? Googling 'PunBB syntax highlighting' gives a couple of options including DocuWiki.

Are there any plans to have another go at it? It might make the posts a little easier to read...

Re: Forum Upgrades

In the last month or two i've seen a lot of posts (always the first post in a thread) that seem to have been truncated, eg which finish suddenly half way through the second sentence or something. If it was just one or two i'd think it was clubhanded users but i wonder if you've changed the system you use for converting text to html and it's truncating posts on some character, or something like that? here's some examples (which might have been edited and fixed by the op by the time you see them):

I've noticed odd behaviour before around square brackets which is obviously what you wrap escaping code in. <open square bracket><close square bracket> next to each other has caused problems for me before. eg